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Supervolcanoes

In 1971 heavy rain fell across much of East Nebraska. In the summer paleontologist Mike Voorhies travelled to the farmland around the Midwest town of Orchard. What he was to discover exceeded his wildest dreams. It was a sight of sudden prehistoric disaster. Voorhies’ digging revealed the bones of 200 fossilized rhinos together with the prehistoric skeletons of camels, lizards, horses and turtles. Dating shows they all died abruptly 10 million years ago. The cause of death, however, remained a mystery. It was not from old age…

Hidden deep beneath the Earth’s surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world – super volcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.

Normal volcanoes are formed by a column of magma – molten rock – rising from deep within the Earth, erupting on the surface, and hardening in layers down the sides. This forms the familiar cone shaped mountain we associate with volcanoes. Super volcanoes, however, begin life when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth’s crust. This chamber increases to an enormous size, building up colossal pressure until it finally erupts.

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  1. The time frame 24:41 looks similar to what was seen of the Twin Towers destruction on September 11, 2001; it is the intense heat that makes the smoke clouds stick together in a rolling fashion; of course the question of the Twin Towers is where did all the heat come from to make the rolling smoke clouds when only about 20 to 30 floors are on fire; yet, you see the Twin Towers smoke clouds behave just like this volcano at time frame 24:41. EYE 5

  2. Seventy-five thousand years ago, the Toba supervolcano eruption left a human population numbering no more than 20,000 people and perhaps as few as 5,000. Granted we’re were all hunter-gatherers then but there is little doubt that another supervolcano eruption will be a devastating event.

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